The Education Channel
Call for end to selective education as 'grammar school areas' fail
Parents' leaders are to call for an end to selective education in the wake of exam results showing most of the worst performing schools are in shire counties that have kept grammar schools. They will meet the Schools minister, Jim Knight, next month to demand that the country's 164 grammar schools are abolished.
'Overburdened' headteachers warn of recruitment crisis
Headteachers delivered a "hands off our schools" ultimatum to the Government yesterday, claiming that a welter of ministerial initiatives had put off potential recruits for headships.